Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political commentator failed to point out that for the first time since 1920 the Republican convention was wide open. Most agreed that Candidate Dewey was likely to lose strength after the first ballot, Candidate Taft to gain. Candidate Willkie would have his chance, if his chance came at all, as these two leaders began to slip. A few there were who believed that if the convention went beyond six ballots, each dark horse in the field looked as good as well-paced leaders. Because of the slow gearing of the convention program* many a watcher felt that dark horses carried...
...would gain a powerful friend in the Far East, and would in effect double the strength of our Fleet." Japan likes the U. S. very much. Japan admires nearly everything about the U. S., from baseball to horn-rimmed glasses. Ja pan leaps like a hungry carp at every crumb of friendship the U. S. tosses onto the Pacific. When the President decided to send the ashes of Ambassador Saito home to Japan in the U. S. S. Astoria last year, Japanese almost buried Ambassador Grew's home in presents. It took only a few days, last week...
Since 1923 the Crimson has won the National Championships six times and has reached the finals in all but three matches during that period. Yale, defending champion, is favored to repeat last year's victory, but the Crimson malletmen will be out to gain a third and final leg in the Gerry...
...troubled, therefore, by the line you appear to take. I cannot see that you gain anything when you parade the horrors of war or play on the emotions which everyone shares, no matter what his views. You should realize, I think, that you are not engaging in an emotional holiday or expressing a mere literary conviction. You should emphasize that your struggle for non-intervention entails also a willingness to make sacrifices--genuine sacrifices--in the fight to preserve and extend democracy at home. You should know that as you struggle for the real interests of your country, you must...
Even if the British do not lose the war, thinks Viton, they cannot win the peace. Unlike their enemies, they have everything to lose, nothing to gain. The Empire owes too much to "the resourcefulness and energy of the British people," too little to "objective material reality." "Powerful separatist movements" in South Africa, even in Canada, are a virtual certainty once the war is over. The war, says Viton, will be a forcing-bed for rebellion in the Colonies: the industrialization of natives, the use of natives in new colonial posts, the return of native soldiers, the rise...